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Post by Kobe Dominates! on Mar 27, 2008 17:55:41 GMT -4
At least my Elite Eight is still intact, although I think 4 or 5 of my Sweet 16 have fallen. Oh, and... DAVIDSON, BABY! You better be taking advantage of this Davidson Students Grab Free Trip to NCAA By ERIN GARTNER – 58 minutes ago RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It's a free-for-all at Davidson College. Thanks to the deep pockets of the school's Board of Trustees, nearly 300 students will travel to Detroit to watch their beloved men's basketball team continue its surprising run in the NCAA tournament Friday night. Students are getting bus transportation, two nights lodging and a ticket to see Davidson play Wisconsin in the Midwest Regional — all for free. Trustees pledged Wednesday to pay for any student. Within a day, 275 students — nearly 20 percent of the student body — had signed up. That sent officials at the small liberal-arts college, located about 20 miles north of Charlotte and about 650 miles south of Detroit, scrambling. "The response was tremendous and frankly, surprisingly large," school spokeswoman Stacey Schmeidel said Thursday. "We actually have a lot more students who want to go, but we're trying to find more buses." Behind sophomore sensation Stephen Curry, Davidson upset Gonzaga and Georgetown last week for the school's first NCAA tournament wins in 39 years. Curry, the son of NBA sharpshooter Dell Curry, has led the Wildcats to a 28-6 season they hope to extend Friday. Curry hit eight of 10 3-pointers and scored 40 points in Davidson's upset of Gonzaga in the first round of the NCAA's Midwest Regional. Two days later, Curry scored 30 points to send Davidson past Georgetown and into the Sweet 16 for the first time in almost four decades. When students learned they could witness Curry and the Wildcats in person, they jumped, even though the seven buses pull out at 5 a.m. for the 11-hour trip. Davidson coach Bob McKillop credited the enthusiasm not only to the Wildcats' success but to the size and atmosphere of Davidson, a private school with about 1,700 students. "The sense of intimacy that exists on our campus is unparalleled in NCAA Division I basketball," McKillop said Thursday as he and the team prepared in Detroit. "But when the Board of Trustees votes in a meeting on Thursday to go into their personal pockets and put out the money so that every student can go to this game with a free bus ride, free hotel room, and free game ticket, that reaches a level that's unprecedented. "I'm stunned by it, thrilled by it."
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Post by David on Mar 27, 2008 18:16:19 GMT -4
Sadly, there's the small matter of me not being a Davidson student. And they're not even sure yet whether or not everyone who signed up will be able to go. Awesome effort, though.
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Post by phdsims on Mar 28, 2008 16:46:34 GMT -4
Go Tigers Go!!!!
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Post by phdsims on Mar 29, 2008 2:04:00 GMT -4
really, if anyone can think of a better 1st half performance in the tournament than what the Memphis Tigers did tonight, let me know.....
50 to 20, are you kidding me......
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Post by David on Mar 29, 2008 9:39:08 GMT -4
really, if anyone can think of a better 1st half performance in the tournament than what the Memphis Tigers did tonight, let me know..... 50 to 20, are you kidding me...... I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out if that score in the top left corner of my screen ACTUALLY said 50-20 at halftime.
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Post by sativa417 on Mar 29, 2008 9:49:21 GMT -4
I love how so many experts picked the spartans to win. Tigers slaughtered them like it was 300
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Post by Kobe Dominates! on Mar 29, 2008 17:33:37 GMT -4
Sorry Savojah The names that had surfaced were Bennett, Xavier's Sean Miller, Pittsburgh's Jamie Dixon and Vanderbilt's Kevin Stallings.
However, the Hoosiers' administration wasted little time in making a play for Bennett -- who may also draw interest from other jobs -- including LSU and California.
Bennett, 38, took over the program two years ago when his father, Dick, retired. He took a team that was expected to finish in the cellar in the Pac-10 and led the Cougars to consecutive 25-plus-win seasons and a pair of NCAA tournament appearances. msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/7966020/Hoosiers-offer-coaching-job-to-BennettYou better go out and buy that sweet sixteen shirt while you still can
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Post by kidtwentytwo on Mar 29, 2008 18:21:50 GMT -4
Bennett isn't a good fit for Indiana
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Post by rogworld1991 on Mar 29, 2008 22:24:20 GMT -4
i have to admit, even i am a huge tiger supporter, that i thought MSU would beat Memphis in a big way. But now i think they will roll Texas, and win the Championship, mark my word!!!!!!! GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Kobe Dominates! on Mar 29, 2008 22:33:58 GMT -4
Bennett isn't a good fit for Indiana Why is that?
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Post by sativa417 on Mar 30, 2008 16:33:09 GMT -4
Memphis!!!
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Post by phdsims on Mar 30, 2008 22:18:32 GMT -4
way to go tigers!!!!!!!
having watched most Tiger games this year, MSU and UT didn't look too much different than UAB, Houston or UTEP against us.......
the #1 seed most likely to not make the final 4? hahahahahahahahaha
so much for the Tigers not being able to beat a good team on the road........
that man to man defense looked great......i love it how the Tigers rarely ever leave their man-to-man D, but other teams, even ones that are usually strictly man to man, scramble to find some zone or gimmick D to slow down the Tigers.....
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Post by Kobe Dominates! on Mar 30, 2008 22:28:36 GMT -4
Poor Davidson was so close. I would have been funny for Kansas to get bounced from the tournament by a double digit seed once again.
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Post by J-Sav on Mar 31, 2008 1:23:58 GMT -4
Sorry Savojah The names that had surfaced were Bennett, Xavier's Sean Miller, Pittsburgh's Jamie Dixon and Vanderbilt's Kevin Stallings.
However, the Hoosiers' administration wasted little time in making a play for Bennett -- who may also draw interest from other jobs -- including LSU and California.
Bennett, 38, took over the program two years ago when his father, Dick, retired. He took a team that was expected to finish in the cellar in the Pac-10 and led the Cougars to consecutive 25-plus-win seasons and a pair of NCAA tournament appearances. msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/7966020/Hoosiers-offer-coaching-job-to-BennettYou better go out and buy that sweet sixteen shirt while you still can Not quite yet! msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/7971512/Sources:-Bennett-spurns-Hoosiers,-will-likely-stay I think finally, the administration has woken up and realized that this guy is an asset to our program, and could be a staple in Pullman if we give him the right resources. With recent success, I think we can get some cats up to Pullman. It really doesn't matter about location, it's really about winning. If WSU can become a prennial 20+ win team, we can get recruits.
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Post by mancowmilitia on Apr 5, 2008 19:24:00 GMT -4
Memphis is getting totally jobbed by the refs and yet they're still winning. Go Tigers!!
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